[SOLVED] Robolectric with Google APIs

I tried to setup robolectric to work with my project compiled against a Google API target, but can't get it to work.

I have tried various approaches and have isolated the problem using deckard-gradle:

When I download the deckard project everything works fine and the sample test runs successfully. However when I change the compileSdk setting in my gradle file to Google Inc.:Google APIs:19 I get this AnnotationFormatError when running the test:

   java.lang.annotation.AnnotationFormatError: Invalid default: public abstract java.lang.Class org.robolectric.annotation.Config.application()
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.getDefaultValue(Method.java:747)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType.<init>(AnnotationType.java:128)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType.getInstance(AnnotationType.java:85)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation2(AnnotationParser.java:263)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:117)
    at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:70)
    at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3271)
    at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(Class.java:3240)
    at org.junit.runner.Description.createSuiteDescription(Description.java:123)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.ErrorReportingRunner.getDescription(ErrorReportingRunner.java:25)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.junit.JUnitTestClassExecuter.runTestClass(JUnitTestClassExecuter.java:83)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.junit.JUnitTestClassExecuter.execute(JUnitTestClassExecuter.java:49)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.junit.JUnitTestClassProcessor.processTestClass(JUnitTestClassProcessor.java:69)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.SuiteTestClassProcessor.processTestClass(SuiteTestClassProcessor.java:48)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:35)
    at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24)
    at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ContextClassLoaderDispatch.dispatch(ContextClassLoaderDispatch.java:32)
    at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ProxyDispatchAdapter$DispatchingInvocationHandler.invoke(ProxyDispatchAdapter.java:93)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy2.processTestClass(Unknown Source)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.worker.TestWorker.processTestClass(TestWorker.java:105)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:35)
    at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24)
    at org.gradle.messaging.remote.internal.hub.MessageHub$Handler.run(MessageHub.java:355)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.DefaultExecutorFactory$StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(DefaultExecutorFactory.java:64)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Here are some relevant snippets from my setup:

build.gradle

    buildscript {
        repositories {
            mavenCentral()
        }

        dependencies {
            classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.13.+'
            classpath 'org.robolectric:robolectric-gradle-plugin:0.13.+'
        }
    }

    allprojects {
        repositories {
            mavenCentral()
        }
    }

    apply plugin: 'android'
    apply plugin: 'robolectric'

    android {
        packagingOptions {
            exclude 'LICENSE.txt'
            exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
            exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
            exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        }
        compileSdkVersion "Google Inc.:Google APIs:19"
        buildToolsVersion "19.1.0"

        defaultConfig {
            minSdkVersion 18
            targetSdkVersion 18
            versionCode 2
            versionName "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"
            testInstrumentationRunner "com.google.android.apps.common.testing.testrunner.GoogleInstrumentationTestRunner"
        }
        buildTypes {
            release {
                runProguard false
            }
        }

        sourceSets {
            androidTest {
                setRoot('src/test')
            }
        }
    }

    robolectric {
        include '**/*Test.class'
        exclude '**/espresso/**/*.class'
    }

    dependencies {
        repositories {
            mavenCentral()
        }
        // Espresso
        androidTestCompile files('lib/espresso-1.1.jar', 'lib/testrunner-1.1.jar', 'lib/testrunner-runtime-1.1.jar')
        androidTestCompile 'com.google.guava:guava:14.0.1'
        androidTestCompile 'com.squareup.dagger:dagger:1.1.0'
        androidTestCompile 'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-integration:1.1'
        androidTestCompile 'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:1.1'
        androidTestCompile 'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:1.1'

        androidTestCompile('junit:junit:4.11') {
            exclude module: 'hamcrest-core'
        }
        androidTestCompile('org.robolectric:robolectric:2.4') {
            exclude module: 'classworlds'
            exclude module: 'commons-logging'
            exclude module: 'httpclient'
            exclude module: 'maven-artifact'
            exclude module: 'maven-artifact-manager'
            exclude module: 'maven-error-diagnostics'
            exclude module: 'maven-model'
            exclude module: 'maven-project'
            exclude module: 'maven-settings'
            exclude module: 'plexus-container-default'
            exclude module: 'plexus-interpolation'
            exclude module: 'plexus-utils'
            exclude module: 'wagon-file'
            exclude module: 'wagon-http-lightweight'
            exclude module: 'wagon-provider-api'
        }
        androidTestCompile 'com.squareup:fest-android:1.0.+'
    }

    apply plugin: 'idea'

    idea {
        module {
            testOutputDir = file('build/test-classes/debug')
        }
    }

My Test class:

@Config(manifest = "./src/main/AndroidManifest.xml", emulateSdk = 18)
@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner.class)
public class DeckardActivityRobolectricTest {

    @Test
    public void testSomething() throws Exception {
        Activity activity = Robolectric.buildActivity(DeckardActivity.class).create().get();
        assertTrue(activity != null);
    }
}

I have also followed the instructions on robolectric to install the maps and the support lib into my local maven repo.

Any ideas what might be wrong in my setup?

Robolectric with Google APIs - AnnotationFormatError